Florida Senate - 2014 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS/HB 7105, 1st Eng.
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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Floor: 13/AD/3R . Floor: SENA1/C
05/01/2014 04:30 PM . 05/02/2014 10:12 PM
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Senator Bean moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 1060 and 1061
4 insert:
5 Section 24. Subsection (2) of section 468.1665, Florida
6 Statutes, is amended to read:
7 468.1665 Board of Nursing Home Administrators; membership;
8 appointment; terms.—
9 (2) Effective January 1, 2015, four Three members of the
10 board must be licensed nursing home administrators. One member
11 Two members of the board must be a health care practitioner
12 practitioners. The remaining two members of the board must be
13 laypersons who are not, and have never been, nursing home
14 administrators or members of any health care profession or
15 occupation. At least one member of the board must be 60 years of
16 age or older. The Governor may reappoint members in order to
17 comply with this requirement by January 1, 2015.
18 Section 25. Subsection (2) of section 468.1695, Florida
19 Statutes, is amended to read:
20 468.1695 Licensure by examination.—
21 (2) The department shall examine each applicant who the
22 board certifies has completed the application form and remitted
23 an examination fee set by the board not to exceed $250 and who:
24 (a)1. Holds a baccalaureate or master’s degree from an
25 accredited college or university and majored in health care
26 administration, health services administration, or an equivalent
27 major, or has credit for at least 60 semester hours in subjects,
28 as prescribed by rule of the board, which prepare the applicant
29 for total management of a nursing home; and
30 2. Has fulfilled the requirements of a college-affiliated
31 or university-affiliated internship in nursing home
32 administration or of a 1,000-hour nursing home administrator-in
33 training program prescribed by the board; or
34 (b)1. Holds a baccalaureate degree from an accredited
35 college or university; and
36 2.a. Has fulfilled the requirements of a 2,000-hour nursing
37 home administrator-in-training program prescribed by the board;
38 or
39 b. Has 1 year of management experience allowing for the
40 application of executive duties and skills, including the
41 staffing, budgeting, and directing of resident care, dietary,
42 and bookkeeping departments within a skilled nursing facility,
43 hospital, hospice, assisted living facility with a minimum of 60
44 licensed beds, or geriatric residential treatment program and,
45 if such experience is not in a skilled nursing facility, has
46 fulfilled the requirements of a 1,000-hour nursing home
47 administrator-in-training program prescribed by the board.
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50 And the title is amended as follows:
51 Between lines 67 and 68
52 insert:
53 amending s. 468.1665, F.S.; increasing the number of
54 members of the Board of Nursing Home Administrators
55 who must be licensed nursing home administrators and
56 decreasing the number of members who must be health
57 care practitioners; amending s. 468.1695, F.S.;
58 revising the qualifications of applicants who may sit
59 for the licensed nursing home administrator
60 examination to include an applicant with a master’s
61 degree in certain subjects;